Building Community Within Diversity
MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 1, 2018) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) on Saturday condemned the racist and misogynistic vandalism of an Arby’s restaurant sign in Brooklyn[…]
MINNEAPOLIS (June 27, 2018) — The Minnesota Orchestra announced Wednesday that Akiko Fujimoto, who joined the Orchestra’s artistic roster as assistant conductor in 2017, has been named associate conductor for[…]
Oscar Night Review By Diana Cheng The Time’s Up movement pushing for equality and diversity was the thrust at Sunday night’s Academy Awards. Time’s Up, a movement addressing the ‘Oscars So[…]
Manchester, N.H. (Jan. 25, 2018) — Of the many stories in the news over the past few months involving well-known men committing sexual assault, few have been as controversial as[…]
MINNEAPOLIS (Dec. 14, 2017) — Asian Women United of Minnesota is partnering with David Dumas, owner of Diamonds & Gold International, Inc. based in St. Louis Park, in holiday toy drive. Other[…]
Women of color are only 11.7 percent of doctors, well below their population share OAKLAND, Calif. (Nov. 2, 2017) — A new report from The Greenlining Institute and the Artemis[…]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 23, 2017) — South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), joined 30 other national and local civil rights organizations,* including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in condemning Southwest[…]
MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 6, 2017) — The Parallel Liberation Struggles: Lessons in Resistance conference is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 in Keller Hall, Room[…]
An open submission call for a forthcoming anthology on colorism with NYU Press will include a collection of essays written by Asian American women about their personal experiences with colorism,[…]
St. Paul, Minn. (May 1, 2017) — The Democratic-Farmer Labor (DFL) Party of Minnesota is expressing outrage over a racist social media post on an official social media page of[…]
